Re: Looking for 2004 SRX map DVD - failed. Who can help?

ROLEX......my apologies for this belated response. I just got around to reading this entire thread.

You are right. Technically it (unauthorized reproduction) is illegal. Practically, an infraction in this instance and under these circumstances would never be pursued.

Let me get this straight. If I buy a product and the manufacturer no longer has inventory to support it (or part of it), has no intention expressed or otherwise to support it, has no alternative to suggest, and walks away and leaving me to my own devices, they still have the right to prohibit me from making myself whole at no practical expense or exposure or loss to them? Yes, technically they do. But do you really think that GM would pursue it? Not in a million years. GM has enough problems.

What would GM argue in court? Neither a judge-directed verdict nor a jury would rule against an individual if it got that far if a consumer was left high and dry in this manner. And it wouldn't get that far because the bad press and poor public relations would cost GM big time by a factor of a zillion.

The government would not pursue it in the first place. They have an ocean of bigger fish to fry on copywright infringement. The FBI employee who would recommend otherwise to his enforcement arm would be laughed out. And when his superiors realized he was serious, he would be reprimanded for not pursuing something with meat on the bone, what he was hired to do. The government is looking for trophy finds and prosecutions.

While technically the unauthorized reproduction is a violation of copywright law, it would be like a police officer writing a speeding ticket for you driving 66 in a 65. He/she has more brains than that, simply wouldn't be dumb enough to write the ticket in the first place.